Indians Roar After 71 Years

HANOVER, N.H., Oct. 23--Yesterday afternoon's noisy 14-9 victory over the Crimson provided the Dartmouth man with the best excuse for jubiliation he's had since all the girls got snowed in for a week at Winter Carnival.

For once, you couldn't really blamed the Indians for the night-long cries of gratification that snowed forth along Fraternity Row. After 71 years of waiting, a Green football team--and an underdog team at that--had beaten the Crimson in a game played at Hanover.

One could still find fault with the Dartmouths though, for the possessive aspect that their newfound self-esteem assumed. At the DKE House, known in Hanover if not nationally as "black" (i.e. wild), a hired village cop was gustily turning away returning alumni who had forgotten their membership cards. The hospitality of the Green "Dekes" was not extended to a bedraggled "brother" from neighboring Middlebury, either.

"You guys at Middlebury are bush," said a white-bucked "social chairman" who evidently wasn't feeling especially social at the time.

Some 2,700 of Dartmouth's 2,800 undergraduates had dates for the weekend, however, and a party that big just couldn't be kept completely private. Although all fraternities officially demanded both dates and guest cards as admission certificates, it was occassionally possible to discover a long-lost friend inside